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Chapultepec Castle () is located on top of Chapultepec Hill. The name Chapultepec stems from the Náhuatl word chapoltepēc which means "at the grasshopper's hill". It is located in the middle of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City at a height of 2,325 meters (7,628 ft) above sea level. The site of the hill was a sacred place for Aztecs, and the buildings atop it have served several purposes during its history, including that of Military Academy, Imperial residence, Presidential home, observatory, and presently, the Museo Nacional de Historia.

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  • Chapultepec Castle
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  • Chapultepec Castle () is located on top of Chapultepec Hill. The name Chapultepec stems from the Náhuatl word chapoltepēc which means "at the grasshopper's hill". It is located in the middle of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City at a height of 2,325 meters (7,628 ft) above sea level. The site of the hill was a sacred place for Aztecs, and the buildings atop it have served several purposes during its history, including that of Military Academy, Imperial residence, Presidential home, observatory, and presently, the Museo Nacional de Historia.
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Start date
  • c. 1785
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latd
  • 19(xsd:integer)
longs
  • 54(xsd:integer)
current tenants
map caption
  • Location in Mexico City
latm
  • 25(xsd:integer)
longm
  • 10(xsd:integer)
Name
  • Chapultepec Castle
Caption
  • View of Chapultepec Castle from the East
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  • 14(xsd:integer)
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  • W
Completion date
  • 1863(xsd:integer)
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  • N
native name
longd
  • 99(xsd:integer)
Style
  • Neo-romanticism, neoclassical, Neo-Gothic
Architect
  • Eleuterio Méndez, Ramón Cruz Arango ity, Julius Hofmann, Carl Gangolf Kayser, Carlos Schaffer
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  • Mexico Mexico City
altitude
  • above sea level
Location
  • Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Chapultepec Castle () is located on top of Chapultepec Hill. The name Chapultepec stems from the Náhuatl word chapoltepēc which means "at the grasshopper's hill". It is located in the middle of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City at a height of 2,325 meters (7,628 ft) above sea level. The site of the hill was a sacred place for Aztecs, and the buildings atop it have served several purposes during its history, including that of Military Academy, Imperial residence, Presidential home, observatory, and presently, the Museo Nacional de Historia. It is one of only two Royal Castles in the Americas, as well as the only one in North America that was used to house sovereigns: the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I, and his consort Empress Carlota, during the Second Mexican Empire.
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